Functional Value
Establishes alignment of inventory management with business perspectives by providing daily, weekly, and monthly data for informed decision-making and cost controls.
- Contains historical demand data for intermittent items in daily buckets while aggregating and disaggregating values (scaling up and down, based on days, weeks or months) for continuous items based on period profiles.
- Establishes a data infrastructure to support complex, multi-echelon inventory optimization. This helps to manage inventory levels across distribution networks by combining inventory optimization with multi-echelon planning to determine stock balance at each distribution level.